In fact, in the partition table I have referenced above, the partition preceding the Ubuntu / partition, has a "bios_grub" flag set, and it is about 1 MB in length. On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is an interesting suggestion: > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher <delcypher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably >> have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use >> that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can >> have Ubuntu regenerate the menu entries and hopefully it would detect >> Arch Linux on its own. If not you'll have to look up how to add the >> menu entries manually. >> > > I tried several times, without any change to the boot menu. The SDD > device (perhaps a specific part) and also a "windows boot manager" are > items in a menu when rebooting with Advanced Startup from Windows. > > The steps I used were: > > - Ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > - changed the permissions of that file to +w > - re-ran grub-mkconfig > > Each time I ran this, it saw the Arch partition. And each time I > booted, this was not found in the grub menu at boot time. It was shown as > a grub 2.x ... > > I am reluctant to try to reinstall grub2 as I don't know how it was > installed before. Maybe there is a clue in the partition table. > > Alan >
